Category: Politics

View this image › Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images WASHINGTON — Gun control groups are hoping the pause in the legislative battle over new gun laws this week will give them time to round up the votes they need to win in the Senate. In the hours leading up to news of the Boston attack,…

North Carolina seems to have hit a time warp. Protests in the name of voting rights have cropped up around the state, and over 50 nonviolent protesters have been arrested. Skip to 1:58 for an explanation of why voting rights are suddenly under fire, and go to 4:35 for the most damaging element of voter…

View this image › JESSICA RINALDI / Reuters With presidential campaign rhetoric almost exclusively concerned at the moment with issues of character — as corruption, secrecy, and honesty become major themes in both sides’ talking points — the Romney campaign could begin using the candidate’s sympathetic wife as a shield. In an interview with BuzzFeed…

View this image › Obama in Austin today. SAUL LOEB / Getty Images After giving a speech in Austin, Texas in which he decried Mitt Romney for overseeing companies that outsourced jobs, President Obama attended a fundraiser hosted by Tom Meredith, a former Dell executive who once oversaw outsourcing at his own company — and…

View this image › Via nymag.com Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took to Facebook Wednesday to troll President Obama, arguing that while his health care reform plan in Massachusetts is an example of good reform, it should not be used as a model for the nation. The text of Romney’s Facebook post: In the…

Here’s everything you need to know about drone strikes, from the guy who pulls the trigger. If you want to understand how frequently drone strikes happen, follow @dronestream on Twitter, where they have and continue to live-tweet every strike on record. Read more: http://upworthy.com/i-used-to-kill-ants-with-a-magnifying-glass-this-guy-does-the-same-thing-but-much-worse-4

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZwFtqaM1LpM. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who recently succeeded his deceased father Kim Jong-il as the head of the country, has a new theme song entitled “Onwards Toward the Final Victory.” According to state news agency KCNA, “The song hardens the will of the Korean army and people to devote their all…

http://buzzfeed-video1.s3.amazonaws.com/video/2013/11/20/pelosisings-502×376.mp4Video available at: http://buzzfeed-video1.s3.amazonaws.com/video/2013/11/20/pelosisings-502×376.mp4. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sang a few bars of “Hail to the Redskins,” the fight song of the Washington Redskins, responding Tuesday to a question about the controversy over the team’s name. She said the song was the first song she learned outside of church. Pelosi has said previously she…

View this image › Ray Tamarra / Getty Images NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 01: Television personality Jon Gosselin ® meets with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach at the West Side Jewish Center on November 01, 2009 in New York City. The ubiquitous celebrity rabbi was asked on Aaron Klein’s WABC Radio show this evening whether his flirtation…

Scalpers: coming soon to an appropriations committee near you. The interview starts at 1:20 for the impatient, but we recommend watching the entire video. A little context never hurt anyone. Read more: http://upworthy.com/you-know-that-whole-equal-access-to-government-thing-someone-bought-that-too

View this image › AP Photo/David Goldman Jon Huntsman praised the selection of Max Baucus to become the new United States ambassador to China, telling BuzzFeed Wednesday that the six-term Democratic senator would be able to leverage his status as a powerful Washington insider to gain influence in the country. “I think it’s a very…

View this image › President Obama speaking at a fundraiser in Seattle Thursday night. (AP) President Obama came out in favor of same-sex marriage Wednesday in an interview with ABC News. The President said that he supports states deciding the issue on their own, erring on the side of federalism on the issue. “I had…

View this image › The front page of the Washington Free Beacon right now an advance in the story of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin. The all-caps headline: “Registered Dem Killed Trayvon.” The story also points out that George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot the unarmed teenager, identifies as hispanic — not “white,”…

View this image › Win McNamee / Getty Images House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and more than 80 of her House colleagues today pushed the Obama administration to put in writing a policy that would help to protect same-sex couples in which one partner is a foreign citizen from being separated because current U.S. law…

19. When she rode on a tank near Communist-controlled East Germany. View this image › Via giffingthenews.tumblr.com 18. When she was elected to Parliament in 1959. The body was only 4% women at the time. View this image › Via ukpolitical.info 17. When she declared that she would not budge on her political convictions. View…

Andrew McCarthy of National Review This seems very significant. A number of us have expressed concerns that Romney cannot effectively confront Obama on Obamacare, the wrongheadedness and unpopularity of which make it the Republicans’ most crucial issue in the campaign. In response, Romney posits that he is a Tenth Amendment guy who saw what he…

View this image › Mark Leibovich Ralph Alswang Photography There are certain books that destroy the author’s relationship with his community. Stevie Smith began her Novel on Yellow Paper with the words, “Good-bye to all my friends, my beautiful and lovely friends.” Julia Phillips made permanent enemies in Hollywood with You’ll Never Eat Lunch in…

1. “OAS” “OAS” “OAS” View this image › OAS is short for “Organization of American States,” a New World organization that consists of the states of the Americas and was formed for the purpose of multi-state cooperation on big issues. Kennedy received the approval of the OAS to blockade Cuba. 2. The word “decisions” is…

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=eziI4h3J0Eg. In a conversation picked up by a hot mic Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell were heard discussing the talking points Republicans have employed during the government shutdown standoff. “I just did CNN and I just go over and over again, ‘We’re willing to compromise. We’re willing…

View this image › Evan Vucci, File / AP WASHINGTON — As President Obama is due to greet an audience of LGBT advocates and supporters at the White House Thursday afternoon, out LGBT members of Congress are pressing him to act on an executive order to bar federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT employees. Here’s…

In an ideal world, becoming a member of Congress means you can FINALLY start making changes and helping your constituents. As this slide from an actual presentation by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee shows, we are not living in an ideal world. Call Time means calling potential campaign donors. Constituent Visits can often include visiting with…